Mehdi Kechiche was spotted on his way out of the tournament room and Manuel Martins followed. The Portuguese was part of a double knockout in which his 
went up versus another short stack's 
and the 
of Alexandre Molina Galan.
On a board of 
, Molina Galan made the best flush to add a few chips to his middling stack.
Gaelle Baumann was among the later entries on Day 1a and had joined some time before the dinner break. She wasted little time to run up a profit and currently sits in second place of all Team Winamax Pros. Pierre Calamusa is the table captain and has more than nine times the starting stack while Top Shark winner Loic Debregeas can also be found in the Mandalay Room as well.
Former Winamax ambassador Jonathan Therme is in, Alejandro Romero and Guillaume Diaz are, however, out.
Level: 18
Blinds: 2,000/4,000
Ante: 4,000
Noah Locatelli raised to 7,000 and then called the shove by Juan Crespo Rodriguez for what appeared to be 78,500 as the cards went on their backs.
Juan Crespo Rodriguez: 
Noah Locatelli: 
The 
flop gave the Spaniard the top pair and top kicker while Locatelli had two overcards. One of them struck right away on the turn and the 
river brought no help to Crespo Rodriguez.
In multi-way action to the 
flop, Alexis Bouvier check-called a bet worth 10,000 by Jean-Charles Remaud and check-raised on the 
turn from 16,000 to 40,000. Remaud came along and Bouvier then led the river for 50,000, which Remaud called after almost a minute of consideration.
Bouvier tabled the 
for two pair and that won the significant pot for Bouvier to join the chip leaders.
The cards were already on their backs with Guillaume Tricoire as the player at risk holding the 
. He had a typical coin flip against Christian Ly's 
and found no help on the 
runout.
Adrian Mateos was among those players to bust late in the day and the Spaniard has another three starting days to try and run up a stack. Several other Winamax Team Pros are currently in contention and they are all over in the Mandalay Room with more news about them to follow.
A total of 369 entries put the €500 Main Event off to a decent start and fewer than one third of the field remains. With four tables in the Mandalay Room, all other players are in the main tournament section and the final stages of the night have unfolded.
Level: 17
Blinds: 1,500/3,500
Ante: 3,500
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